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It's ok. I am pretty neutral about it. My brother's godparents have a son called Dalton (it was his mother's maiden name). I haven't seen him for years but growing up he was a willowy, gentle chap who played chess - so that's my association with it. Incidentally he is now married and has a son called Guy.

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A few years ago a girl I worked with had a son called Dalton - he was huge, stolid, bruiser of a baby, the doctor was worried about his weight he was so big. His name always sat oddly with me because of my previous association with the name.

It makes me think of china figurines... and a 5 or 6 year old boy who asked me at a friend's bday party I was clowning for if I was a "real clown".

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I wouldn't use it... Sounds too "elegant china" for me to use on a little boy... and rather surnamey as well.

Not a bad name. I prefer it as a last name. I know a teenage boy named Dalton and, while I don't know him well, he seems nice enough. The only thing that bothers me is the way his girlfriend pronounces it: dahl(t)-in (the T is hardly audible.) The way I'm used to hearing it is very whiney but I like it pronounced DAHL-tin.

To me it sounds very preppy, but I think that's because I babysat some kids who went to Dalton, a reeaaallly expensive private school in Manhattan. It's a nice enough name, and I think the sound 'doll' is kind of endearing in a boy's name.

I have a 16 year old brother Dalton.

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His name is Dalton Casey, his middle name is after my uncle Kerry Charles (K.C.). He is really a great kid. He is very senstive but likes for people to think he is B.A. I don't think of the name as country at all.

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Here is a picture of him from a music festival, he's obviously the one on the left.

It makes me think of Dalton School, which is without doubt, one of the most prestigious (if not the most presitigious) school in the country. For that reason alone, I find it pretentious, it's the 'school equivalent' of naming a child Princeton, Yale, Harvard etc!

I don't think of Dalton as "country" at all. I find it sophisticated and mature. It works well on a small child all the way up to a grown man. I love how it is uncommon but not weird, and people will always pronounce it right. It seems like it should be trendy, but I don't feel that way at all. I like it.

AKA, Caddy Compson's sleazy boyfriend in "The Sound & the Fury". That's who I think of when I hear the name.

I associate the name Dalton with murderrrr! The first time I saw the name Dalton was when I read a true-crime book about a dentist who killed his wife in front of their sons, Dalton and Dillon. So now I can't escape that assocaition.

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It's funny that it's considered to be "country" to people because it seems very preppy-yuppie-suburbs in the 90's to me; again maybe because of the crime story (the family was quite affluent).

If you're into country names, that's a country name to a T! That's in fact why I dislike it. Although I also dislike it because it reminds me of the only one I've ever known, who was rather obnoxious.

I really like it, but have gotten mostly bad remarks about it from people on here. I like that it's rare but not 'out there'. I'd use it!